1998 Pontiac Sunbird

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seat belts. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Seat Belts1
000
Electrical System › Wiring › Fuses and Circuit Breakers1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › Wiring › Fuses and Circuit Breakers
Filed Jul 14, 2004IL

CONSUMER NOTICED THAT AFTER USING LEFT TURN SINGLE FUSE WOULD BLOWOUT. DEALER WAS CONTACTED ABOUT PROBLEM. *AK

Seat Belts
Filed Jan 10, 2003FL

CONSUMER WOULD LIKE TO BE INFORMED OF A RECALL CAMPAIGN 99V0940001 IN REFERENCE TO THE SEAT BELT RETAINER. SCC *JB *DT

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1994
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20003000Routine
19993000Routine
1998 — this page2000Routine
19974000Routine
19964000Routine
19951000Routine
199442200Routine
199337340Routine
199230410Routine
199127430Routine
199011210Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.